The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 02, 1922, Image 1
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Ik. majority
against road
Bing Fourth Avenue Instead
Hi Of Thirrt is Rmnoct I
w. yvjwuk
Blunder
ILL CORRECT IT
ON ANOTHER DAY
nway Has Lost in the Deal-Situation
Plain Enough to
AH the People
t is true that new lines were rut.
the beginning portion of the nevv
>rgetown and Conway road, hut it
ears that this was done at the
:gestion of one of the engineers}
use opinions all of the time havi*
n against the taking of. the road
nilo out of the way.
phis article is referring here to
road as it leaves the boundary
I's ol the town of Conway. As to
Greenwood route, the community
v fully believes, and they arc
inly stating that they do not bee
that it was ever intended to
sider the Greenwood route exit
as a blind for the deal that
uld finally put Conway out of
iness by using fourth avenue inad
of third.
j'he chain gang has been at work
j some time. Noise of blasting
heard early last week as .the
Irk of blowing up stumps began
iir the farm of Col. C. I'. Quattler.n,
this first work being done, it
pears on the lower part of the
n where the road will bend to go
|k next to Georgetown. The lines
Irun takes the traveller away from
fere he was going a mile or more
I of the way and then the road lias
Iturn back to go on where it was
pnded to reach finally.
^H'he boards responsible for tho
i"<i location of this road have
^ nderod. A majority of the peo
of Conway have seen it already.
say so. The remainder of the
>pK who do not see it and re^wo
it now, will be certain to seo
^Hlator on, and they will then fool
The mistake that has boon nvulo
^fli make itself felt in time to come,
l those who are responsible for
^ tiiur tho road where it is tfointf,
^ 1 >'< < ' roL'i'ot iust as much as
^wono. They will be more concerned
Hut it thon. however, because they
id Ttavo <lone their work better
B would not.
^At least eighty per cent of tho
^Bnlo of Conway are opposed to tho
of fourth rivenue for the
HHd. It will cost the town of Con*
about threo thousand dollars to
^ ncri lourth avenue with this road.
avenue was already connected,
^ icials of the town have been
about it although saying
The situation was as plain
^Hday for all those who wanted t^
it. Third avenue and tho new
^Hd by the Fred H. Lewis and
^ lhorouuh places was and is vol
H logical place, the best place, the
of least expense, and the only
^Hre in the opinion of eighty per
H' of the people, it has been said.
^H'he work that has been done in
HH wrong1 way will be righted in
Hr1, just as other wrongs h.ive l?of^n
^HhU'd in time. People will refuse
I imi a mile out of the way when
distance and their time can be
^wr>d by making a change. Another
rd, another day, will locate this
'I, another way. Mind what we
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^Hiody pains and legal aches will
H. go unsoothed in Providence. R. I.
^H:tors and lawyers are offering
^He services to jobless American
^B^irn men.
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"USE ME!
| A Methodist preacher once,
addressed his congregation at the
' other things he said about as folio'
[ "I am here, use me. Never
jj field while I am around, use me. I
to he put on foot, use me. If the s
^ and sisters, don't you undertake 1
[ too, use me. By all means in the i
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i Usp me, brothers and sisters, use i
The Horry Herald is exactl;
1 An old negro was asked to define
? ' ?'\Voll C.un'n.
11)0 coil Ml uy
mo' so."
The Herald wants to be us<
things tending to the betterment
by this community is meant not'or
county. Now if you have anything
I^Hjt over. Use me, says the Herald,
The Herald wants to help
and it is its duty to help. Use it.
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BRIDGE ACROSS
PEE DEE RIVER
Each County Raises SeventyFive
Thousand Dollars
for Purpose
uepresentative Iredell Hilliard,
writing to the Georgetown Times,
concerning the bridge across the
Great Pee Dee River, between the
two counties, says:
The bridge problem for Georgetown
county has been solved for the
present in the following manner:
The two counties have each agreed to
provide $75,000 toward building a
bridge at or near Yawhannah Ferry
across Pee Dee River, the state highway
commission to furnish Federal
aid in an e<iual sum, the bridge to
cost not more than $300,000. The
Georgetown delegation is also providing
in the same bill for $50,000
additional to be used when matched
by Federal aid to put a bridge over
Hlack River at or near Skinner's
Ferry. Your delegation here is taking:
the responsibility for a bond issue
of $125,000 without submitting'
the matter to the voters for the purpose
of building these bridges. I
want to say here that the greater
part of the burden for this action
rests on my shoulders as I have been
advocating this cause from tlie first,
while my colleague, Mr. West, was
not favorable to the proposition and
your Senator openly opposed it until
finally convinced /it the last moment
that it was for the best interests of
the county and that under existing
circumstances we were justified in
passing the bill providing for a bond
isxnp without a referendum.
PREPARES TO
ADI) PENALTIES
As the month of February went
out the county treasurer had to arrange
to place a penalty of seven
per rent on all of the taxes still remaining
on his books as unpaid.
There had been a great show of
extending the time for payment of
the taxes, without penalty, in the
branches of the Legislature, and a
resolution was passed to that effect
in both houses; amendments were
made, however, and when the house
and the senate got to disputing over
these, it brought about delay. The
resolution had not been finally passed
and ratified in such a manne/
that the treasurer could depend on it
and according to law he would have
to add the penalty after March. 1stThis
matter of a penalty adds much
work in the treasurer's office. On
the other hand it. has tho effect of
making many people pay taxes before
time for addition of this penalty.
If-IORRY SEN AT()R
COMMITTEE HEAD
Senator Jeremiah Smith of Horry
county was on Wednesd/iv elected
chairman of the fish, game and Pores
try committee 01 the senato, to succeed
Senator Gross of Dorchester,
who has been ' elected chairman o!
the finance committee,
Senator Smith is a venerable member
of the upper body of the General
Assembly. He is a Confederate veteran.
The nomination was made en Humiliation
of Senator Gro^s retiring
chairman.?Columbia lte.?oid.
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Racing a street car for a mile, an
ex-soldier in Dallas, Tex., just up
from a sick-bed, beat five other applicants
to a job.
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CONWAY, S. C? THURSDAY
WARD-BATE CO.
BEGINS WORK
Woods Force at Work For
Some Time Under Mr.
Addington
NUMBER OF HANDS
INCREASED LATER
Extensive Timber Tracts Along!
Rivpr Will hp Wnrlrnrl i
Control Other Mills
The plant of the Ward-Bate Company
across the river from Conway,
began operating last week with a
force of thirty hands. At first about
this number of hands will he employed,
but as lumber accumulates on
the yards and the output of the woods
force is increased the number employed
at the mill will he increased.
The company has been operating in
the woods and getting the plant into
operating condition for more than a
month past. Manager Addington arrived
here more than a month ago
ami took charge of operations.
The company owns extensive timber
tracts along the Waccamaw River
from Reaves Ferry to Wortham's
hr.idge. Most of their logs for sawing
are delivered on the water at Red
151 uIV /md from that point are floated
in rafts down to the plant.
Owing to the low price of lumber
following the war this company found
it necessary to close its plant last
year and it remained closed down until
recently. Conditions have changed
and the timber they own will all he
cut into lumber.
.J. Herbert Hate- of New York is
the president of the company. In ad
,<lition to the plant nt Conway Mr.
Bate controls plants at Wilmington,
N. C., and Georgetown, S. C. He
does a large business in lumber.
ROAIVWORKERS
BADLY TREATED
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Editor Herald:
I have been asked by the people
of Little River Neck to enter a protest
against the unjust and .unlawful
way in which they have , been required
by the Township Supervisor
to abandon their own legally assigned
roivd, upon which they were only
allowed to put two days work during
the year 1921 and go and work
Ion the Con way-Wilmington Highway
which already has its full assignment
of road hands.
This public road leading down to
Fort Randall, a- portion of which is
traveled in going to Cherry Grove
Bach is badly in need of work, and
we fed it is a great injustice and
indignity to be treated in this manlier.
If the authorities who have
given such an order were residents
beside this Highway, do you think
they would so interpret the law as to
leave home and go and work some
other road on those days which th^
law says must be expended upon the
road section to which they are legally
assigned ? The law says "the
CimniMnoAP >?ilV Ot'Clfrft Mill' nOI'Crtll
liable to road duty to work upon any
section of roa<ls in the Township"
within ten miles of his home, hue
once assigned, and part of the years
work done, it does not mean he may
he moved promiscuously over the
county. People who are allowed to
draft laws, should have sense enough
and know English well enough to
leave no duplicity of meaning which
requires a court of jurists to say
what is meant. In such cases it
comes to common sense?the award
of justice to ourselves and others.
Our road has had no county help,
and no gang help and is now robbed
of its own labor! Gentlemen might
does not make right. 'Tis said the
Boomerang may fly back and hit its
thrower. Suppose storms take away
our bridges and destroy our road ?
Where will we get repairs? Ou?*
section has been woefully wronged
for years but this is the limit and
we want restitution.
N. F. NIXON.
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BIRDS PROTECTED
On January 1C> a violator residing
at Batchtown, 111., was arraigned at
Springfield and entered a plea of
guilty to selling wild ducks and shipping
them without proper markings
nnd undor :in assumed name. The
court imposed a fine of $250 and a
sentence of ninety days in jail. United
States Game Warden Harry Barmeier,
of the Biological Survey, was
the arresting officer. As a result of
the apprenhension of this violator evidence
was secured which will lead to
the prosecution of several others.
TAXES GROW BIGGER
It would seem that as population
increases that the tax on property
would he less and less according to
the number to pay the taxes and the
amount of wealth owned I?;* so many
more people; but such has not been
the experience in this state. Taxes
have grown bigger every year.
INHERIT \NCE TAX
The Governor approved the new act
which places a tax on inheritances.
Blanks have been sent out to the
judges of probate all over this state
requiring them to report estates
from time to time as they come under
their jurisdiction.
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CRIMINAL CASES
SENT TO GASQUE
From the Total Will Come
Many Cases for Trial
Next Week
Indictments will be prepared by
L. M# Gasque, Solicitor, in fortyseven
different crinmal cases sent to
him last week by W. L. Bryan, the
clerk of the court. As a usual rule
indictments are prepared in all of the
cases submitted by the magistrates,
though it is possible that examination
of some of these papers will
show that the facts put the particular
case within the jurisdiction of the
magistrate court in winch event the
solicitor will return the p*.ners and
send them back to the lower court fo*'
trial.
From this long list of crimnal offenses
will come many cases for
trial in the court next week. The
complete list as sent by the clerk,
follows:
Will Baily and Bennett Emzor,
Disturbing Religious Congregation.
Ernest Small, Violation prohibition
law.
Fernoy G. Ward and Mary Baker,
adultry.
General Graham and Bessie McCracken,
adultry.
Puly Graham and Lizzie Dimery
Adultry.
W.- V. Gause, 111 treatment to
family.
Harmon Brown, assault and
carrying concealed weapons.
Luther Hardee, forgery.
Harvey Hughes, disposing of property
under lien.
Rosa Allen, larceny.
Louis Tyler and Jess Strickland,
assault and batterv with intent to
kill. ?
R. G. Todd, bastardy.
E. Bfrt Sarvis, unlawful entry,
ohsenitj and assault ,und battery
with intent to kill.
W. Fa* Buffkin, breach of trust
and fraudulent intent.
Emetti Small, violation of prohibition
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John jCausey and Critty Muggins,
adultry. j
Luther Dewitt, assault and battery
with intent to kill.
Ben Justice and Jack Bepscnt,
violation of prohibition law.
R. B. Nobles, bigamy.
Clvde , Justice, Christ Lowell, Hick
Causee bnd Fate Bennett, violatiton
of prohibition law.
James Singleton, bastardy.
C. C. Linden, false pretense.
I nnn W ilhlivn dicuncirifr nf ???''<?
v* i"?r
erty under lion. ,
Ho!? Mishoe, assault and batter/
with intent to kill.
Bill Lewis, making and selling
whiskey.
Hanion Duran and Lonnic 'Ihomas,
House breaking ivnd larceny.
R. K. Johnson and Bill Houston
Johnson, disordei ly conduct, assault
and battery with intent to kill.
John Jacobs, violation of prohibition
law.
Birt Hughes, violation of prohibition
law.
Pink Todd, breach of trust with
fraudulent intent.
L. B. Causey, false pretense.
Wheeler Gowans, larceny of bicycle.
A. B. Elliott and Luther I'ink,
rape.
VV. J. Johnson, larceny.
E. N. Tompkins, disposing of
property under lien.
Jesse Strickland, assault and battery.
J. M. Gasque, disposing of property
under lien.
W. J. Johnson, obtaining goods under
false pretense.
I). E. Hughes, violation of prohibition
law.
John Graham, assault and battery
with intent to kill.
Burroughs Gerrald, obtaining goods
nder false pretense.
Hudson Jenkins, Troy Jenkins and
B. C. Jenkins, riot and assault and
battery with intent, to kill.
E. C. Capps, obtaining goods by
false pretense.
D. G. Hinson, disposing property
under lien.
William Henry Hemingway, house
breaking and larceny.
Charlie Prescott, murder.
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DUCKS KILLED
A deputy game warden reports to
the Biological Survey that several
times in the last few weeks crude
oil escaping in open waters along the
coast of Rhode Island has covered a
v.ast area and destroyed property
valued at thousands of dollars, including
shellfish and great numbers
of migratory bir Is. He recently collected
and buried nearly !>00 black
ducks which had boon killed hv the
oil. The source .?f pollution has not
yet been learned.
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PLANS IN MAKING
Last week the courthouse grounds
were all plowed up and holes filled
up. This work was done by the county.
Other agencies have been interested
in this improvement and at last
accounts there seemed to he some
doubt as to whose plans would he
adopted for Laying out the grounds.
The Civic League has shown great
interest in beautifying the grounds
and may submit plans for laying
them out, but nothing definite had
been done along this line last Saturday.
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WILL DEVELOP
MELSON ESTATE
Street Locations Await Final
Decisions on New
Road
OTHER OWNERS
WILL CO-OPERATE
Place Lies Next to Town Line
Wnol ivrn "O ^ ri ^ 1
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Court House
Rufus G. Mclson, real estate broker
of Cornell, N. Y., has been in Conway
since early in February, in pursuance
of plans for cutting up the lands of
the Melson estate into suitable building
lots, the laying out of streets and
other development of this land.
The location of the streets through
the property will not be fixed until
the new highway has been so definitely
fixed that no change will likely be
made. Mr. .Melson wishes the streets
and avenues to kvul to this highway
from both sides if the road goes
through the center of the land, which
it now appears will be the case.
As soon as the locations for highway,
streets and avenues have boon
fixed surveys will be made and tho
'ots located on a large plat. After
that the plans for offering this land
to the public will be completed.
Mr. Melson does not own the whole
of tho lands which belonged to the
late \V. P. Melson, Sr., but only his
share. Other shares, however, belong
to his sister, Mrs. Frances 10. Moulton,
and his neico, Mrs. Katie (i. Rollinson.
They will co-operate with him
in the development and /sale of this
land, nearly all of which is suitable
for building and clearing.
Other shares of the estate have
irnnf1 into 1 1m li "i nrls /?('
The portion of it which was owned
by Mrs. E. A. Pitman, one of the
heirs, now belongs to H. H. Woodward,
immediately next to the corporate
limits of the town of Conway.
On this place there is already a home
and some clearing; and is at present
occupied by D. G. Hinson. Another
portion of the land is the property of
J. 10. James .and lies farthest away
from the town next to the land of
C. P. Quattlebaum.
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BIG SALE ON
AT BIG STORE
In this issue appears an advertisement
of two pages telling: of the big
sale that will begin at the Conway
Department Store, on Fridav, March
Brd.
The store expects to need extra
; help during this sale la-sting through
eight days from the date of the
opening and this fact is mentioned in
the advertisement.
Large stocks of drygoods and
wearing apparel recently placed in
the stores will l>e disposed of at this
sale.
For further information about this
sale read the advertisement.
A string of - world war medals
(bought at a sale) across his chest,
the world's fastest-working beggar
took .SCtO an hour from New York's
theal re crowds until the American
Legion got the police on his trail.
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jjj The following letter, from a
H? esting and the movements sngges
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? object to the use of it in these co
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^ Editor of The Herald:
Dear Sir:?Enclosed please
* able to collect much in the past
* Will then mail the other dollar.
^ the whole amount. 1 am glad t<
* and hope the prediction will coi
* couraged in the Middle West; th
% wholesale. One man alone closed <
^ borrowed money to feed cattle a
* promise of high prices to be cont
* years trying to get out of a bad ho
* felt that fruit and creameries we
?? fruits that can be shipped to fort
ij: pete with Carolina in raising pet
* But there will have to be an orj.
H? through. 1 think the farmer and
i{i tion to get their own in regard to t
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4: niay not interest you, but someti
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With best wishes for all in
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NO 46
EVERY FARMER
SHOULD JOIN
I Salvation of Every Farmer Lies
in Co-Operative Marketing
of Crops
Columbia, March 2.?"If the farmers
of South Carolina do not en,
thusiastically support tho
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now on foot to organize and put in
successful operation tho South Carolina
Cotton Growers' Co-operative Association
they need never start another
farmers' movement because it
will be a failure," says J. H. R. Jonkins,
vice president of the Peoples
Bank & Trust Company of York in
a letter to W. B. Wilkerson, a York
county farmer, a copy of tho letter
having been made public by the officers
of the co-operative association
in this city.
Mr. Jenkins' letter was in reply to
one from Mr. Wilkerson asking the
attitude of the bank toward the movement.
Mr. Wilkerson had written
Mr. Jenkins that the banks in many
counties of the state were strongly
backing the movement and asked if
Mr. Jenkins' bank would favor it.
"In our opinion the proposed co-operative
marketing movement," continued
Mr. Jenkins "is the only movement
that ha s ever been started by
the farmers that has ever had 'teeth'
to it. A co-operative association
with tho proper enthusiastic support,
under honest and capable management,
organized in South Carolina
and in tho other cotton states will
do more to bring about and regulate
orderly marketing of cotton at a fair
profit than anything else that can be
done. Therefore, the Peoples Bank
& Trust Company strongly recommends
the organization of properly
managed co-operative marketing associations
and we unhesitatingly offer
our facilities to this end.
we nave quite a inininer ot iarmers
among: our stockholders; we
number hundreds of farmers as patrons
and we are and will be just as
willing-, if not more so, to assist
financially farmers who are members
of the association as those who are
not- The fact that the government
through the great war finance corporation
and the large financial institutions
in the money centers have endorsed
co-operative marketing: associations
and have expressed a willingness
to extend and are already
extending financial assistance in large
amounts is in itself evidence of the
i soundness of the proposition. It is a
great pity that the farmers of South
Carolina have not long before organized
such Jin association. They would
now be enioying the great benefits
that are being enjoyed through associations
already organized in Texas,
Oklahoma and Mississippi.
"The farmer who does not .ioin
in this, movement is not only standing:
in his own light but is retarding
the future development of the South."
GASOLINE TAX
The Governor' approved the new
law placing a tax of two cents on
gasoline, and this has boon in effect
since M.arch !.
Blank forms were being sent out
just before the fust of this month to
dealers and retailers for reporting tlie
amount of stock on hand and ibe first
income to the state from this new
source will l>o paid in by the dealers
in April.
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find a dollar bill. Have not been \\
year but expect something later.
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3 read that things are looking up $
ne true. They are not much en- $
e farmers are being closed out at *
sut forty-three farmers. Too many He
nd buy them under the fluttering ^
inued, which went on two or three I
le and mired worse. I have always jr
re the only hope of your country, He
?ign countries. No state can com- &
irs; California is not in it at all. &
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fruit grower will soon be in a posi- *
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'oreign prices and shipments. That s|e
\\prf> it lint tV?r t lin l>in- I~
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would not pay gathering: expenses.
but the growers have won. He
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United States thev rotted on the He
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mes we will do things you know,
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the land 1 still love,
1 remain your friend, se
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